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My father-in-law was diagnosed with leukemia in 2008, a few weeks before the first tulips popped their glossy mouths open, toward the spring sky. Our daughters were six and three at the time, and they immediately asked us if “Bop”—as they called him—was going to die. The prognosis wasn’t good, but there were treatments to […]
I’ve always had a pen in my hand. I used to write news stories in my Sesame Street notebook, in fake cursive. My family tells me that one of my first words as a child was “why.” So it made sense that I grew up to become a news reporter. I wore fancy suits, and […]
I Love You by John Blase So this bell calls us all… ~ John Donne It was Sunday morning coming down in Phoenix. I was there on business. My wife called that morning saying they don’t think Dad’s going to make it. I need to go. A little while later the cell phone […]
How do we ever curb our appetites for just one more? When was the last time we said, “You know what? I have enough.” Do we ever believe that we have enough blog readers, book sales, friends in our corner, people in the pews, money in our offering plates? Today, Christin Ditchfield has invited us […]
Most people wouldn’t have bothered naming her. After all, she was not a person, or even a four-legged friend. She was a house – a gigantic, white-sided, black-shuttered hulk of a house with no cells or DNA or alveoli. Yet somehow? She had a heartbeat. They all knew that for sure. And, the way […]